This past week has been amazing! I love my new job! Thanks to my new occupation, a couple other aspects of my life started falling into place. I'm sleeping like a log and now I can feel refreshed after fewer hours than normal and I can eat less often without a whole lot of anxiety building up. Thanks to my new position in the work force, I finally know what it feels like to not only love your job but also to be rewarded for working the job I'm passionate about. I never knew that by fulfilling my passion for working with children that I would also feel more complete with my other needs. Now less food and sleep feels like more. It's an amazing transformation for me.
The other awesome thing I've noticed is that while at work, I am so present that I cannot get stressed out. I have no thoughts running through my head which means I've made room for what should be there: my 100% attention and focus, and the words that need to be said. The only thoughts on my mind when I start talking are the exact words I need to use, that is all there is. It's a great feeling to be able to do this at long last. Every once in a while, I slip up a little, but for most of the day, this is my state of mind and I believe it has a whole lot to do with the job lining up with my passion as well as the help I got from the trail.
These feelings have almost nothing to do with how smoothly things went this week. The day after Halloween, there were at least 5 different bathroom related accidents (numbers one and two) and we had to change their clothes. On another day, there was so much Lysol in the air, I could taste it thanks to a ringworm scare; it turned out that the big red spot on this one kid's forehead was just from repeatedly rubbing it on his cot during nap time. There were a couple instances where I thought I might go deaf thanks to lifting a screaming child and times when they just don't listen. But for the most part, many of them do listen to me and I still look back on this past week with great fondness, contentment and gratification.
